Saving the vaquita: Immediate action, not more data

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1653-1655

  Jaramillo Legorreta, Armando ^a   Rojas Bracho, Lorenzo ^a   Brownell Jr , Robert L ^b   Read, Andrew J ^c   Reeves, Randall R ^d   Ralls, Katherine ^e   Taylor, Barbara L ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Okapi Wildlife Associates Canada   (Canada)

^e SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PORPOISE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PORPOISE; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; PHOCOENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

PHOCOENA SINUS;

EID: 37349113121     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00825.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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